Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves. Now, human respect—you don't call a man a coward or a liar lightly, but if you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them.

That however the brains and abilities of men may differ, their stomachs are essentially the same.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.

It takes a genius to whine appealingly.

I want to give a really BAD party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there’s a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see.